Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values

[Rose Siding]

Source: NBC News

As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world.

The new agency, which he hasn't yet named, would promote a Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of the world: China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East.

"We need to beam messages around the world" about the freedoms Americans enjoy, Kasich said in an interview with NBC News Tuesday. "It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women, it means freedom to gather, it means so many things."

He defended creating a new government agency at a time when fellow Republican presidential candidates discuss eliminating government agencies to making the government smaller.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/kasich-proposes-new-government-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-n465101

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If these Pubz didn't have such high public profiles, the comedy would be way more enjoyable.

[valerief]

1. Will someone show him the First Amendment? What a fucking asshole. nt

[sakabatou]

8. And the Federalist Papers and the Treaty of Tripoli

[bulloney]

31. I thought Republicans preach about LESS government.

This looks like a case where Kasich was booed at the last debate, so he's trying a Hail Mary (no pun intended) play to appeal to the religious fundies who are squealing the loudest among the Republican base.

Can this party get any more dysfunctional?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

44. Only when it doesn't benefit them or their masters. n/t

[KingCharlemagne]

57. LOL to keep from screaming :) - nt

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Thank you for your interest in the open position, Governor

Please don't call us. We'll call you.

[Jefferson23]

3. Yea, lets push religion..that's the ticket.

The stupid continues..what will he call the agency? My Religion is Better than Yours Dept.?

[guillaumeb]

4. Does he need suggestions for a name for the agency employees?

Perhaps the Crusaders?

And Kasich is supposed to be one of the smarter ones.

[SwankyXomb]

46. It's not that he's smarter

he's just slightly less crazy than the bat-felching crew, and so looks normal in comparison.

[guillaumeb]

64. Very true. "Slightly less crazy" represents the moderate GOP.

[Lars39]

53. The agency? The Great Commission.

[KingCharlemagne]

59. This stunt perfectly exemplifies pandering. No, make

that 'craven pandering.'

This is what has become of the party of Lincoln. SMH.

[guillaumeb]

63. Lincoln would have to campaign as a Democrat today. eom

[KingCharlemagne]

65. Abe was a smart guy; he would be a Dem Socialist! :) - nt

[DrToast]

5. DoJ

Department of Jesus?

[elleng]

6. MUST be

[randys1]

29. OMG, I would have bet $1000 it was...it isnt.

Republicans are literally children in adult bodies.

Literally

[CincyDem]

7. This...this is the wackiness we live with everyday in Ohio.

Said it before, I'll say it again.

This guy is the scariest whack job on the stage at those debates. His skill is managing his message so you don't know what he's thinking.

the good news is that he must be feeling desperate because the "real John-boy" is starting to leach out around the edges.

I can only hope that he ends up screwing this up so badly that nobody will even consider him for VP. Right now, with Ohio in play, I have to think he's at least a possibility and that is a heartbeat too close for me.

[Jefferson23]

11. Interesting insights, thank you. n/t

[neeksgeek]

9. I know what he'll call it! I know!

Ready?

The Department of Family Values.

[tanyev]

16. Or something even more Orwellian, like the Department of Religious Freedom.

[meow2u3]

43. Or the Department of First Amendment Protection

Catshit wants to forcibly convert everybody in the world to backwoods fundamentalist Evangelicalism under the guise of religious freedom.

[StevieM]

10. And just think....Kasich is supposed to be the moderate in the race. (eom)

[CincyDem]

14. See Above

Kasich is no f'ing "moderate".

He spent enough time in corporate america to know how to say what needs to be said without anyone knowing what you really think. I spent 29 years in a corporate job. By the time I got into "management" I had been well trained to know how to "hold my tongue" when necessary. For the last 10-12 years, I suspect there were only 5-7 close friends who knew my real politics.

Kasich had the same training.

And underneath that "gotta be pragmatic" facade, he's as off the rails as Carson, Huckabee or Santorum on the role of church in state. The difference is he knows you can't say it in public and look "moderate".

Don't be fooled.

[StevieM]

45. I'm not fooled. That's why I wrote "supposed to be." I know how extreme Kasich is.

He was the one, along with Gingrich, who gave us two government shutdowns in 1995.

My point was that he is being portrayed as the moderate in the race, and even he is making insane proposals.

[Marthe48]

62. He's a Republican

I am not fooled by anyone who calls himself a Republican. They can pretend all the day long that they are moderate and say things that sound moderate. But they are all cut from the same cloth. If someone who seems moderate is elected, it is like he wakes up the morning after the election and find a horse's head in his bed. Or is tapped by the Republican crazy wand and toes the official line. Look at Kasich's voting record, how his agenda was imposed on Ohio,and how in big grabs and small, Ohio citizens have lost so much. He doesn't just support the official Republican agenda, he is writing the contract.

[Rose Siding]

18. Yep, or at least the most not-crazy one

They all claim to carry copies of the Constitution in their pockets. I think maybe they never removed the wrappers?

The Toledo Blade's coverage included this:

“One of my daughters last night said, ’Why are you not going to let these people come in? What’s that about, Daddy?’” Mr. Kasich said. He said he told her, ’Reesey, we understand these people are in trouble, but think about, Reesey, us putting somebody on our street, in our town, or in our country, who mean us harm. We can’t do that, can we Reese?’ ’I understand now Daddy why you said what you said,’“ he related.

https://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2015/11/17/Kasich-urges-foreign-policy-backing-Judeo-Christian-values.html

Reesey is 15. I don't believe his simplistic answer would satisfy a 15 year old. Mine would probably have had way more questions. Like, Do the orphans and children mean to harm us? Luckily, even his crowd pressed him on it today:

The Q-and-A period afterward was dominated by critical questions about his position on Syrian refugees, including that there was no evidence that the existing vetting process isn’t good enough, until Mr. Kasich said he’d talked enough about the refugees.

[msongs]

12. russia has pretty much already been hijacked with virulent christian family values. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. That's the clue it's not even about Christianity; it's about trolling countries he thinks voters

want trolling. Russia would indeed be indignant at any suggestion it needs lessons in Christianity from an American politician. They're even, as you say, chock full of intolerant 'family values' Christians, pushing anti-LGBT laws.

[The Stranger]

13. [Ahem, COUGH] First Amendment [COUGH]

WTF?

[onenote]

15. what about Japan? Only 2 percent Christian and virtually no Jews

Shouldn't they be the subject of the federal evangelical marshals?

[7962]

23. hardly any muslims either. Its a different society.

[Gloria]

17. JERK!!!!!

I'm so sick of this crap.

I long for a leader who calls this crap out and starts pointing out how asinine the religious nonsense if getting more and more stupid!

So now tax dollars are supposed to go toward missionary work?? SCREW THEM ALL!

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. Uhhmmm Presidential Hope Kasich ... You might wish to actually read the U.S. Constitution! n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

20. John Kasich: Crusader Pig.

[DhhD]

21. What an idiot. The Prophet of Islam taught that all religions practiced for God,

were to be tolerated where ever Islam was practiced. The Holy Bible teachers that according to God, the acceptance and practice of God is the choice of the individual. Idiots do not read the instructions first: First Idiot Kasich, fumbles to begin with.

[7962]

28. If thats the case what about the "convert, pay Jizya, or be killed"?

"If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them"
Book 19-4294

Not that I'm backing Kasich's plan either.

[Tempest]

22. "it means respect for women"

Except when it comes to their reproductive rights.

[surrealAmerican]

24. What is wrong with him?

I guess there are no sane candidates in this Republican primary. Congratulations, Fox News, you've driven all of them away.

[Rose Siding]

27. Something really is wrong with him, right? But you know what?

Bet he picks up support in the next poll off this. Carson's fading and the fundies will be seeking the crazy.

[GeorgeGist]

25. Name that dog whistle.

[houston16revival]

26. How about the RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE ACT

The Founding Fathers fled intolerance and religious oppression. So many
alt sects came to America - I'm no expert - Swingli's, Amish, Mennonite,
Calvinists, Heugonots, and some from England. They sought freedom!

Freedom from Kasich is all that's required here. His dementia is palpable.

[KamaAina]

30. Silly Kasich. What about all them Mooslims in Africa, India, Indonesia, etc?

[liberal N proud]

32. These fucking clowns want smaller government, except...

Except when the want to oppress a certain class, ethnic group, gender or another group they want to force their beliefs upon.

[MNBrewer]

33. Radical Religious Lunatic!

[Warpy]

34. Oh, goody, another dimwith who doesn't realize the antiestablisment clause

covers his religion, too. Funny, these pseudo Christians think they're exempted because they're a nominal majority. The fact that they're in a pluralistic country with easily a hundred or more non Abrahamic religions has completely escaped them all.

[rladdi]

35. Christians and values, no way. Christians are the biggest problem in this nation.

[blackspade]

36. Fuck no.

Take your Jewish- and Christian-based belief system and cram it up your cram hole.

"It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women, it means freedom to gather, it means so many things."

None of which have a thing to do with Jewish and Christian-based belief systems. The opposite in fact.

Assholes.

[Maeve]

37. From the rest of us in Ohio--World, please accept our apologies for producing this!

We are embarrassed...

[KingCharlemagne]

60. LOL -.apology accepted - nt

[LiberalElite]

38. Gee, I thought he was the "reasonable" one...

Then again, maybe he is...

[passiveporcupine]

39. I will be happy to vote for our first atheist President.

If we are ever advanced enough to let that happen.

[Chasstev365]

40. Keep Your Church Out of My State!

[Eugene]

42. What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" has he forgotten?

Blatantly unconstitutional.

There was a time when having the government shape what people believe
would put the right into a frenzy. Now it's just more red meat for the GOP base.

[jmowreader]

47. A "Republicans Trashing the Constitution" drinking game could be lethal

Take a sip every time a Republican presidential candidate adds an unconstitutional plank to his campaign platform.

Chug the whole beer every time the unconstitutional plank has something to do with religion.

Make it a bourbon with a beer chaser if they plan to infringe on the religious liberties of any non-Christian religion.

And make it two shots of bourbon if Islam is the religion in question.

Stop playing when the opening gavel of the Republican National Convention is sounded.

[Nihil]

48. I thought that was the job of the Department of Defense?

Motto: "Enforcing Capitalist Judeo-Christian Values In Places Full Of Foreigners"

[Vinca]

49. And Kasich is supposed to be one of the sane ones . . .

[peace13]

52. Aaaaa...no he's not!

He's Walkers twin. He's a Teabagger. He has systematically destroyed Ohio. Please research the guy!

Edited to add this from my post last week....
He is a tea bagging sun of a gun. First year in office he cut all budgets, schools included and municipalities had to make up the difference. The citizens of Ohio had to pick up the mess and pay at home. Before he came into office he tried to bilk millions from retirement accounts to line his own pockets. He sold us to the frackers and Ohioans pay to clean up the mess. When he came to office he stopped legislation to clean up the deadly blue green algae on Lake Erie saying it was caused by just a few bad apples and now six years later he proposes that the taxpayers clean up the mess by paying additional taxes. He gave the profits from the State liquor sales to a privatized board that was supposed to create jobs. Jobs Ohio, check it out. His original plan was to hire a man from California to run it. That man's salary was to be one dollar. Do you see anything fishy there? In addition to this the jobs board is an unauditable entity, run by a private board with State tax dollars! In the meantime the city of Toledo had to shut off all city water causing hospitals to cancel all procedures. The lake is a disaster that didn't wait to happen! This man ....is not to be trusted!

[redwitch]

50. Jesus wept.

They really have no one smart enough to be president do they?

[KingCharlemagne]

61. Huntsman (who is not running) - nt

[peace13]

51. And...yesterday his State Legislature just voted to defund Planned Parenthood.

The money will be given to religious organizations to provide health care to low income women. Now we have to pray to get a free meal and a Pap smear!

[handmade34]

54. "about the freedoms Americans enjoy"

guess he hasn't read the latest Freedom Index...

"...Hong Kong and Switzerland top the rankings, followed in order by Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, and Canada. The United States ranks in 20th place..."

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

55. Does he know about the Constitution? This should be an absolute disqualification.

[KingCharlemagne]

56. Now that's what I call chutzpah - nt

[Rose Siding]

58. Funny how anti-govt pubs respond to attacks with new govt agencies

911 got us "Homeland Security", now one of 'em wants a brand new creepy one.

[rockfordfile]

66. A republican idiot

[Solly Mack]

67. If only the terrorists could find Jesus...

Damn.

[spiderpig]

68. Oh puh-leeze

I'm an embarrassed Buckeye. I left 30+ years ago, but you know...

I can only surmise that decent humans just turn their backs on government, letting the psychos take over. I can attest that's what's happened in corporations. If you don't want to be a cannibal you just leave.

[prouddemfromaustin44]

69. These fundies make me sick.

And they have the audacity to talk about Sharia Law. Bunch of hypocrites.